The cure for ingrown/ingrowing toenails
This worked for me on several occaisions. Force a small amount of cotton wool under the corner of the toenail, as hard as you possibly can. It will be painful. Leave it there, and the next day rinse and repeat. It eventually forces the offending shard away from the nailbed without the need for surgery. Joy!
(brutal stack Raided the beeves of Apollo on, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 1:27, 6 replies)

Worked for me...
(badgerlikespeed, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 1:40, closed)

I will try this
I have a prob with an ingrowing toenail and am too chicken to go to doctor.
(McChinaman banned, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 1:54, closed)

it does work really well,
I have done it a few times but you have to remove the cotton wool, wash your toe well and dry it off completely every day or you could get an infection.
( Bamboo Steamer, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 9:21, closed)

pfft
wuss

I regularly sort them out with pliers and a swiss army knife
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 9:02, closed)

another good trick is to cut a "V" out of the middle of the nail
you'll snag it on everything, but as it grows, it'll grow sideways to fill the gap and away from the bit that really fucking hurts
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 10:10, closed)

i'm going to give this it's own answer, but really, go to the fucking doctor.
it's free, they use anaesthetic, and you don't end up with what i'm about to post
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 10:58, closed)